Hi CTD

Sure, it’s pretty simple maths, you won’t need your calculator.

A locus is a location on a DNA strand, there can only be one DNA sequence at a given location on a given strand of DNA. Different individuals sometimes carry different sequences, called alleles, at a given locus though some sequences are very common and may be carried by most if not all of a given species. In diploid species, such as us and dogs, we carry two parallel DNA strands, one from our father and one from our mother in each chromosome so for each locus an individual can carry two allele’s, one on each strand, though again they are often identical so in effect many individuals only carry one variant or allele at many loci.

On the ark there were, according to the bible, either two or seven of any kind of animal so among dog kind there were either two (allele’s per individual) times two or seven individuals giving us 2x2=4 alleles or 7x2=14 alleles. That is true for any given kind on the ark. Today we find, in humans who are supposed to have started from just two individuals (max of four alleles per loci) that there are, on average, 13-14 alleles for every single locus in our genome while quite a number of Loci have more than 50 alleles. The numbers in dogs are similar with the highest known number of alleles at a given locus being 72 last time I checked. This figure leaps dramatically when you add fox’s etc into the mix as these carry a very different set of alleles and even a number of different loci that don’t match up at all to dogs. These variations are easily enough explained through ToE but don’t fit with the idea both that evolution can’t invent new things (CTD’s suggestion) and the idea that all of these organisms are descendants of just two or seven individuals who were carried on the ark (Russ’s suggestion).

P.S. Russ you are wrong when you state that "they believe that in only a few million years, every plant and animal alive on the planet today was produced out of primordial mud." The evidence suggests that life has existed on this planet for over 3.5 billion years or 800000 times longer than the claimed period between the ark and the present.

In Reason

Russell